Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

POPI1283 M. Popillius (24) P. f. P. n. Laenas

Status

Relationships

son of
? P. Popillius (25) (Laenas) (father of? C. Popillius (18) P. f. P. n. Laenas (cos. 172)) (Zmeskal 2009)
brother of
? M. Popillius (22) M. f. P. n. Laenas (cos. 139) (DPRR Team)
? P. Popillius (26) Laenas (son of? P. Popillius (25) (Laenas)) (DPRR Team)
C. Popillius (18) P. f. P. n. Laenas (cos. 172) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Liv. XLII 10.10, Liv. XLII 28.3

father of
? M. Popillius (22) M. f. P. n. Laenas (cos. 139) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis 180 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Appointed to consider Pisa's promise of land for a Latin colony (Liv. 40.43.1; cf. Salmon, CQ 27 [1933] 30-35). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor 176 Italia, Rome (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Election Liv. 41.14.5 Provinces 41.15.5. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Excused from his province when he urged the advantages of keeping Gracchus and Aebutius there (Liv. 41.15.6-8). See Münzer, APF 216ff.; Lübker no. 5. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 734, footnote 84 (Brennan 2000)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 174 Aetolia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent to Aetolia to compose serious factional strife there and reported their inability to do so (Liv. 41.25.5-6, and 27.4). See 173, Legates; and on Valerius, Münzer, Gent. Val. 47, no. 36; on Popillius, Münzer, APF 216ff. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Consul 173 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Liv. 41.28.4; 42.1.1; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 50f., 123, 458f.; Ovid Fasti 5.329f.; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Popillius, cf. Cic. Off. 1.36. Though both Consuls were assigned Liguria (Liv. 42.1.1-2), Postumius was sent to recover public land in Campania{408} from private possessors, and returned to Rome to hold the elections (Liv. 42.1.6, and 9.7-8). Popillius in Liguria sold the Statelliates into slavery, and persisted in his treatment of them when the Senate attempted to reverse his action (42.7.3-9.6). Postumius was the first Roman magistrate to exact public entertainment from the Italian allies (Liv. 42.1.7-12, at Praeneste). On Postumius, see Münzer, APF 213f., 216f., and Lübker no. 10; on Popillius, Lübker no. 5. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 173. An honorary inscription of Telesia is attributed to him (with the cognomen Laenates) (Quilici, Quaderni Ist. Topografia 2, 1966, 100-101, cited by A. Degrassi, Acta 5th Internat. Congress Gr. & Lat. Epig. 164). It should perhaps be referred to a later Popillius (J. M. Reynolds, JRS 61, 1971, 139). Censor 159. In MRR 1.445-446, refer also to Plin. NH 34.30. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 173 Aetolia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Early in 173 these reported the increase in factional strife in Aetolia (Liv. 42.2.1-2). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 172 Liguria (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Proconsul in Liguria (Liv. 42.21.2). Renewed the war on the Statelliates until the Consuls came and succeeded him (42.21.2-22.1), then delayed his return until forced by the Tribunes (see above). Censured by the Senate but escaped condemnation when prosecuted through the connivance of the Praetor Licinius (42.22.2-8). See Münzer, APF 216ff. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Militum 169 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Served under Philippus in Macedonia (Liv. 44.1.2), for whom he undertook special commissions (Liv. 44.4.11, 5.10, 8.8, 9.1-10, and 13.1-6). See Lübker no. 5. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 159 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Cic. Brut. 79; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 50f., 123, 462f.; Fast. Ant., ib. 160f.; Gell. 4.20.11; Non. Marc. 247-248 L; Fest. 360 L. They removed from the Forum all statues of magistrates which had not been erected by express command of the Senate and People (Piso fr. 37{446} Peter; cf. Auct. Vir. Ill. 44). Nasica dedicated a water clock marking equally the hours of the day and night (Plin. NH 7.215; Censorin. DN 23.7; cf. Varro LL 6.4). They reappointed M. Aemilius Lepidus Princeps Senatus and completed the lustrum (Liv. Per. 47). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 173. An honorary inscription of Telesia is attributed to him (with the cognomen Laenates) (Quilici, Quaderni Ist. Topografia 2, 1966, 100-101, cited by A. Degrassi, Acta 5th Internat. Congress Gr. & Lat. Epig. 164). It should perhaps be referred to a later Popillius (J. M. Reynolds, JRS 61, 1971, 139). Censor 159. In MRR 1.445-446, refer also to Plin. NH 34.30. (Broughton MRR III)

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